Re: [rtcweb] Final plea about SRTP

[Roman Shpount <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Magnus Westerlund <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> In my role as a WG chair I have to say that the decision to make SRTP
> mandatory to use for WebRTC had a very strong consensus behind it. Yes,
> there are some few individuals like yourself that are on the rough side
> of this decision.
>

Let's hope this will work in real life use cases. If it does not (which is
what I believe, but I can certainly be wrong), then RTP can be put back at
1.1 version of the standard.

 I think the bid-down problem is one of the largest for most people.


I do not think we need to support auto-negotiation of RTP vs SRTP. Also,
RTP should not be allowed from HTTPS sessions, so I do not think bid down
is a problem at all.

I also see a great benefit with always using SRTP, in that we will get rid
> of RTP profile
> negotiation. There will be no need to support any other RTP profile than
> SAVPF.
>

I do see a benefit of using one RTP profile only, but this will require
WebRTC to use yet another feature that had almost no real life use. This
will also ensure that RTCP will need to be re-encoded (as probably RTP)
when processing calls to anything outside of WebRTC world.
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Roman Shpount